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World-Leading Airline Adopts Government HCI Scheme and Raises Computer Literacy Across the Organisation | 2005-10-04 03:00:05 |
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Virgin Atlantic wanted to ensure that its staff, including both office-based and non office-based workers had an opportunity to develop their ICT skills, which will become increasingly important as processes such as rostering and training move from conventional to web-based delivery mechanisms over the coming years. The company chose leading services provider Dell to help design, deliver and support a Home Computing Initiative (HCI) scheme targeted at all its UK staff, but with a particular emphasis on its flight deck and cabin crew employees, who do not have access to computers in their day-to-day work. With the HCI programme, staff can hire new technology tax-free, on a monthly basis.
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Case Study: State of Michigan | 2005-10-04 03:00:05 |
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The state of Michigan consists of 20 agencies, each with specific responsibilities within the state's government. The state of Michigan wanted to standardize in order to decrease costs, increase efficiencies and maximize its flexibility and buying power. Dell had proven itself to the state of Michigan over the past several years. In fact, in 1999, the state decided to standardize on Dell desktop and notebook computers; approximately 50,000 systems have been deployed. The state recently set its objective to consolidate many of its Intel-based servers and is currently in the process of standardizing on DellPowerEdge servers throughout the agencies.
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Dell Case Study: Megabyte Express (ME) | 2005-10-04 03:00:05 |
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Since opening its doors in 1992, Megabyte Express (ME) has become a national provider of business products, including office and computer supplies, customized business forms, commercial printing and promotional products. Megabyte Express needed a reliable and secure network that could help them achieve their long-term financial goals and enabled them to remain competitive in the office supplies business. Megabyte Express needed a reliable and secure network that could help them achieve their long-term financial goals and enabled them to remain competitive in the office supplies business. Upon conducting a network assessment, Dell recommended a solution that included hardware, software and the services necessary to develop a robust and scalable network. After implementing the solution, Megabyte saw a dramatic increase in team productivity.
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Universities and Colleges Join Forces in Cornwall to Modernise Their Learning Facilities and Attract More Students | 2005-10-04 03:00:05 |
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The Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative links all higher education providers in the county and its aim is to ensure that potential students have the facilities they need to complete their higher education in Cornwall. The new main campus of the CUC at Tremough, near Penryn, is shared by University College Falmouth and the University of Exeter in Cornwall. The two institutions needed to find a strategic partner to deliver a range of cost-effective and reliable hardware to 200 classrooms to very strict timescales. Dell provided 500 Dell OptiPlex GX280 desktops and Dell Precision 370 workstations, 50 Dell Latitude D505 notebooks and 70 Dell 1700n printers and tagged each machine so that it was delivered to the right classroom at the right time.
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NHS Trust Chooses Dell as Long-Term Strategic Partner to Deliver Better Patient and Public Services | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust needs to maintain a high-standard of patient care. To do so it must ensure that its technology infrastructure can fully support its day-today operations. With a high level of service and support, and a range of resilient technology solutions, the Trust has chosen Dell to be its strategic technology partner for the last nine years.
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UK College Maintains Leading Position as Centre of Educational Excellence With Dell Client Hardware and Services Implementation | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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Runshaw College in Lancashire needed to implement reliable new hardware to support its updated systems infrastructure so that it could continue to attract new staff and students. The new products needed to be deployed across the college's three sites without disruption to teachers and students. Long-term services provider Dell implemented 800 Dell OptiPlex GX270 Desktops and 100 Dell Latitude D505 Notebooks.
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Dell Revs Up Automotive Sales at Ford | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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Ford Motor Company of Canada is one automotive company that is on the leading edge of DMS deployment. The i-Connect team planned to eliminate old hardware and supply each dealership with a minimum of one new desktop and server. Ford Canada sent a request for quote (RFQ) to hardware companies and wheeled and dealed for the best pricing and service. By ordering direct through Dell, Ford Canada was able to reduce the time it took to get new desktops set up at dealerships from a month to two weeks.
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Dell Helps Kikki.K Streamline, Organise and Control Their Fast-Growing Retail Business | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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After business started booming in 2002, kikki.K had major problems managing the IT systems for their expanding office/warehouse, retail outlets, e-commerce website and staff. Increasing support needs, poor collaboration capabilities, inadequate Internet access and security concerns were holding back business efficiency and growth. kikki.K implemented a customised Dell system across the business including a Dell PowerEdge 600SC server, two Dell OptiPlex GX270 desktops, a Dell Inspiron notebook and a Dell PowerConnect network switch, along with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Windows XP Professional software. This fully reliable environment created immediate benefits, saving significant support time and money (not to mention stress).
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Dell Desktop Computers Support Leading Laser Microdissection System | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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Using the AS LMD laser microdissection (LMD) system from Leica, researchers are able to isolate cells from tissue sections to prepare them for DNA, RNA and protein analysis. The LMD solution from Leica, one of the world's leading makers of microscopes and scientific instruments, is called AS LMD. All the functions of Leica AS LMD, such as laser activation, cutting movement and microscope functions, are controlled by a Dell OptiPlex GX270 desktop computer. Leica orders the computer systems it needs from Dell and integrates them into its AS LMD solution, which is then sold all over the world.
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Financial Times Gets Inside Perspective on Better IT | 2005-10-06 03:00:01 |
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The Financial Times had a legacy of non-standard IT equipment, which was inefficient to manage and difficult to budget for. It wanted to provide its workforce with standardised technologies and a more flexible service model. Dell provided a standards-based hardware model and leasing agreement to the Financial Times. This enabled it to structure its desktop IT expenditure and provide a reliable computing service.
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